[Feature Request]: Expose beacon scanning interval and duration so it can be set per app

[towebo]

Summary

I need to be able to set the scanning interval and duration in my app. The app uses beacons to detect where the user is and I've found that the frequency is too low for my app to work as intended on Android.
In an older Xamarin.iOS app that uses the native support for beacons the frequency is much better and I'll check how well Shiny.Beacons work on iOS.

API Changes

Expose ScanInterval and ScanDuration configurations.

Intended Use Case

In apps that needs higher frequency of beacon updates to be able to give the user relevant information when at certain spots.

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[aritchie]

Duration is easy to control with RX. I just have a scan, nothing that cycles it on/off every X seconds In terms of frequency of beacon ranging, it is using a balanced scan but I'll look into making this available in a future version.

[towebo]

Ok. I had a look at the code and as you say, I couldn't find anything regarding intervals. I saw that the scan mode is Balanced and that there's a mode called LowLatency. Would that be a way to increase the scanning frequency?

I'm visually impaired and I use TalkBack on Android and I let the MAUI app announce the id of each beacon as it was ranged and it was quite infrequent. It could be more than a handful seconds between rangings of beacon A while beacon B was announced a couple of times in between.
Perhaps this is due to how Android is designed without posibillity to change it. I ran the same app on my iPhone and it was like a clockwork that makes the detection of beacons a breeze.

Could you explain what you mean by controlling duration with Rx=